It’s long overdue for Somebodyisfromhere.com to create an Arkansas search tag.

Done.

And to do it Somebodyisfromhere.com found the town that may lead the land in percentage of (former) population that’s in the college football hall of fame. The Wiki page seems to be guessing there. And Somebodyisfromhere.com never heard of the players anyway.

Nevertheless, Smackover has a population of over 1,900 and two hall of famers. What is more interesting, though, is the name. What the hell is with the name?

It’s Halloween season so it’s time to uncover one of the country’s more gruesome names: Slaughter Beach.

Often times, when looking up a cool sounding name, the answer is not as interesting as it would first appear. For example, one might expect the name of the town to come instead from a person’s last name. Here, however, that is only one possible scenario.

You’d think that the town of Rifle in Colorado would have been linked to a lot of cool pop culture particularly of the western variety. However, it seems the best it can do was being mentioned in Stephen King’s The Stand.

(There is also an explanation how chains used to be used to measure maps – and that Ninety Six was perhaps 96 chains away from so and so- but that description was too convoluted to include in this free flowin’ and breezy website.)

Somebodyisfromhere.com is not above pandering. At one point the state with the most site views on Somebodyisfromhere.com was Washington. So hello, Washintonians, do you know where the town Puyallup got its name?

In the whimsical years pre-recession he used to go to Atlantic City maybe once a week. Especially in summer. He would gamble every time. Win or lose he’d spend money on booze. When he’d win he’d spend some of it shopping and more booze.

He once tried to buy a whole poker table pizza simply because he was up that night and a stranger dared him to. They couldn’t find a place that delivered at that hour.